| Institut Für Feinmotorik

Founded: 1997 for a club-event in Basel (Switzerland). Institut für Feinmotorik is an artists group working in different formats and media. Although, one main activity is accoustic-art / music. 8 turntables, 4 DJ mixers + end-mixer. The set-up is served by 1-4 persons. Everything (except records) which somehow fits between turntables and pick-up cartridges (household-rubberbands, paper-stickers, rubbergums, handicraft-tools + various tinker-trivias) will be played in our live-sets.

Because of this kinda huge set-up, live presentations of I.F.F. are often interpreted as some catchy sound-art-installations served by a group of people manipulating the whole lot over and over again searching for the essencial groove of hypnotic para-techno.

The music of Institut für Feinmotorik mostly appears in the context of electronic music, but is deeply mechanical and, if any, imitates structures and aesthetic codes of digital-/electronic music by the use of an important instrument of the electronic (dance-) music, namely the DJ set-up minus the records, to create an aesthetic approach of a stumble-structured rythm music, sounding not unlike some stateof- the-art powerbook click-hop piece listened to through some closed doors.

Different from many other generating-procedures of contemporary electronic music, no single piece of I.F.F. music is reproducable at all; thats the reason why every I.F.F. show is a unique event, but with a typical aesthetic recognition-effect caused by their radical purist attitude.